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Category: Insect & spider

Leg with/without claw

Legs robust, tibia with outwardly facing terminal spines, well developed claws.

Silphidae leg Silphidae leg2  
leg leg  

 

Wing

Carrion beetles have large hind wings with a reduced venation

Silphidae wing   
   

Antenna

Antenna with well defined, densely pubescent, three segmented club (a total of 11 segments)

Silphidae antenna   
 antenna  

head, eye, antenna/elytra, mandible, palp, proboscis

Mandibles without a mola, maxilla are similar as scarabidae

Silphidae eye  
eye  

 

Other, elytra

Shortened elytra, often orange or black.

Silphidae elytra   
 elytra